5 May
2005
5 May
'05
1:30 a.m.
"Iain K. Hanson" <ikh@hansons.demon.co.uk> wrote
If Perl is better then C++ preprocessor, then it should become C++ preprocessor. But it needs to be built-in, otherwise these are apples against oranges.
With all due respect this misses the point completely. We don't need a better text substitution tool for C++. We need something that includes headers, also pragmas, and conditional compilation, the rest IMHO is macro hackery and extra lingustic.
And template metaprogramming is just template hackery, correct? I am just trying to understand whether your antipathy is limited to macros, or spreads to everything that was not in the original design, and discovered later? Regards, Arkadiy